Always happy to play in these, though I'm not sure we want to limit the mechanics since it stops people coming up with their own ideas. If each colour/colour combination/tribe/whatever was given its own ethos instead of a mechanic then people would have more freedom to make thier own mechanics but the cards would still be tied in some way - like 'land matters' was the overall theme of the last set so we had various takes on that: landfall, controlling multiples of lands, sacrificing lands etc that we wouldn't have seen if we'd limited ourselves to just landfall.

Something I was thinking about in relation to You Make the Set was that we could have more of a set feel if we had multiples of the same commons. The idea would be 1x each rare/mythic, 2x each Uncommon, 3x each Common.

So for a 360 card cube the breakdown would something like:

40 Rares/Mythics

110 Uncommons (55 Uniques)

210 Commons (70 Uniques)

There are a few benefits to this, we don't have to design swathes of cards, we get to allow that "set feel" by potentially having multiples of the same card in the draft, and we can seed some archetypes that require specific cards that wouldn't easily be doable in a highlander format (i.e.: Searing Meditation at uncommon)

Logistically I think you can just play it as a normal cube, as this will add enough variance that you will never be sure that there are multiples of the specific common/uncommon you are looking for (unless you have full 8 players).

I really like the idea of having a set, although the number of unique cards probably needs to divide by eight or we'll end up making different numbers each!

That being said, I think we might be quite close to just being able to put a set together from exisiting cards then updating it with anything awesome that comes along from these sort of events. Maybe even a set with cards that work well together and make archetypes playable AND a cube with one of each of the most awesome cards!

Well I was imagining that we would take the collaborative approach we talked about in the other thread with regards to designing this set.

I think we certainly can reuse some existing cards, I have designed about 50 new ones so far relating to the themes Tom talked about before. Maybe we just need to get a communal MSE file up with our ideas so far, and then start the discussion.